Norway Wants To Ban The Sale Of All New Petrol And Diesel Cars By 2025
“That’s a bit drastic,” some of you probably thought, when it was announced that the city of Paris was to ban all cars built before 2010 from its centre by 2020. However, that all seems pretty minor in comparison to what the Norwegian government is cooking up. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, the country’s government is considering banning the sale of any new petrol or diesel powered car by 2025.
Almost a quarter of all new car sales in Norway are made up of electric vehicles, but to forcibly bring that up to 100 per cent would be an extraordinary move, and an interesting one given that the country’s economy relies heavily on the exportation of oil. It won’t just be diesel and petrol cars getting the boot, either: the plans also cover light commercial vehicles and busses.
It’s important to note this isn’t definite just yet; while the proposed law has been put forward, it hasn’t yet been passed. We’ll be watching this with interest.
What do you think of the proposals? We’re keen to hear your views, particularly if you’re a Norwegian petrolhead!
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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“Just heard that Norway will ban new sales of fuel cars in 2025. What an amazingly awesome country. You guys rock!!”
Really dude? Really? (the language is kinda bad but this meme came to mind when i saw elon musk’s tweet)
I hate him more and more every time I hear something he has to say. I hate to sound like such a bad person for hating someone like that, but for someone who seems to want to just ruin our passion, he deserves it. What an a**.
You guys rock, what grown man says that Musk
Elon Musk is an incredible person, as much as I love petrol..I will always apreciate his work. He’s not destroying our passion…he had an McLaren F1 guys…
Well, if the government will by Norwegians Teslas or I8s, then that’s fine.
i live in Norway, if this is true i will move away to a different country
Another scary thing is that 2025 is in 9 years.
Everyone is freaking out over Norway banning cars, meanwhile I’m sitting here thinking how in 9 years it will be 2025
LOOOOOOL XDDD
F*CK. 2025 really sounds further away than it actually is.
Less than 10 years to R&D an electric replacement for the internal combustion engines that had the benefit of evolution spanning at least 50 years. That is ambitious at best.
Safe bet that I’ll never be going to Norway.
They want to reduce the CO2…
But Norway is very happy to sell their petrol and gas to the rest of the world…
Look at the guy tweeting this “What an amazingly awesome country”. Now I want to kill myself.
Beeing norwegan this sucks!